Interesting analysis <g>.
Personally, I had never heard the term "toque", but I don't live in the snow
belt.
The "beanie" used to be a form of mandatory fashion punishment inflicted on
college freshmen of an earlier age (pre-propellor). Now seen only as an
ironic statement of "geekdom", hence the term "propellorhead".
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on 6/27/10 3:23 PM, David Breneman at david_breneman@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- On Sun, 6/27/10, Phil Bacon <pboldtrix@juno.com> wrote:
>
>> C'mon
> guys.......those caps shown in
>> the link are not beanies or tocques!
>>
> They're Stocking Caps
>> I was issured one when I was in the Navy, 50 years
>>
> ago. Mine was wool, fit
>> tightly and itched like hell!
>> And no, they
> won't come off during top down
>> driving.
>
> When I think of a tuque (a toque is
> a chef's hat), I think
> of a coarsely knit wool hat, frequently with a poofy
> ball
> on top. I associate them with parkas, sleds, snowball
> fights, and Bob
> and Doug McKenzie.
>
> Up until a few months ago, I was also clear in my mind
> that
> a beanie was a king-size yarmulke with a plastic propeller
> on top.
> Definitely not knit. Maybe made of felt or some
> similar stiff fabric.
>
> But
> recently, I heard some colleagues describing a
> finely-knit cap (like a
> stocking cap), too short to
> roll up the brim to any degree, of the type worn
> by
> rappers, etc., as a "beanie". That was news to me.
>
> The hats in the
> picture look like stocking caps. The
> thing that sets a stocking cap off from
> a tuque in my
> experience is that it's woven much finer, like a woven
> shirt. A
> tuque is woven coarser, like a heavy sweater.
> I suppose you could describe the
> "beanie nouveau" as a
> short, brimless stocking cap.
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